Tanner Not Running For Governor Declares Candidacy Ended
Governor Tanner states he has not been a candidate for re election since taking office and will not seek another term. He criticizes newspapers and defends his Allen bill while stressing party loyalty over personal ambition. Rival candidates Laneey Reeves and Yates gain momentum as supporters watch for further developments.
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Springfield
Tls
Tanner
Sfertz
Pease
Ile
Allen Bi
Senator Cullom
United States
Senate
Shelby MM. Cullom
Fam
Tam
Illinois
Tlaneey
Reeves
Yates
Trancey
Chicago School Superintendent Endorsed at State Teachers Meet
Illinois teachers gathered in Springfield for the State Teachers Association session. J Benjamin Andrews of Chicago urged patriotism in public schools and the duty to form good citizens while proposals called for broader training, state law on superintendent duties, and new county training schools.
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Philipes
State Teachers’ Association
Andrews
Chicago
Bknontes
Springfield
Ilinois State Teachers’ Association
J. Benjamin Andrews
Wy PL Maxwell
New York City
Board of Education
Chicago School Board
Congress
Indian Territory
Andrew S. Draper
University of Athels
Libel suits threatened over Indianapolis Press and Milwaukee Sentinel
The Milwaukee Electric Railway official Charles Pfister and Milwaukee Electric Railway official Payne plan libel suits against The Sentinel company and the Indianapolis Press publishers. Attorneys from Quarles Spence Quarles and Miller Noyes Miller Wahl file actions over editorials reprinted in The Sentinel and Indianapolis Prose. Pfister seeks 100,000 dollars. Payne joins with similar claims.
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Milwaaukee Sentinel
Fatlianapolis Press
Milwaukee
Quarles, Spence & Quarles
Sentinel Company
Indianapolis Press
Charles I
Pfisterone
Milwaukee Electric Hailway and Light Company
Philintiff
Indianapolis
Sentinel Trenty
Payne
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
Miller, Noyes, Miller & Wahl
Milwaukee Sentinel
Jayne
Pitister Anks
Two steamers survive eight days of lake storm
The J. G. Lyon and City of Rome arrived in Milwaukee from Cleveland after eight days and seven nights at sea in a brutal storm. Captains Charles Hahn and J Q Owens reported the voyage as the worst they have made with the ships their decks frozen and ice up to the waterline.
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Milwaukee
Dee
J. G. Lyon
City of Rome
Cleveland
Charles Hahn
J. Q. Owens
Lyon and
Lome
Lyon
Interstate Commerce Commission Sends Evidence on Freight Classification
The Interstate Commerce Commission transmitted the hearing transcript on the new freight classification to Attorney General Griggs without a recommendation. Shippers and commercial interests had urged legal action to block the new rates effective January 1, 1900.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Griggs
Boston Council Endorses Sympathy for Boers in Debate
Boston's continen council adopted a resolution of sympathy for the Boers after a spirited debate, announced from Boston on December 24.
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Boston
Council For the
Continen Council of
Ex-President Cleveland Slowly Recovers From Gout
The outline notes Ex-President Cleveland is laid up with rheumatic gout but rapidly improving. Also listed are multiple brief items: Chicago fire alarms count, iron ore output forecasts for 1899, a Chicago death by self infliction, a forged check case in Evanston, and other scattered incidents across cities including Lincoln Park lions and Hawaii plague reports.
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Chicago
Lake Superior
Stephen Pease
Jennie Glass
North
Evanston
Flora
Lincoln Park
Daniel Bwere
Morrison
Brown County
Wis
Robert Wilcox
Honolulu
Kaohelelani
Washington
Hawaiiia
John J. Gorman
Japan
Hawaii
Harry Fscombe
Natal
South Africa
Durban
Leen
Candidates for UMWA officers at national convention
At the United Mine Workers of America national convention in Indianapolis many candidates announced for top posts. Miles Daugherty of Shamokin Pa leads the ticket against John Mitchell for president with several nominees for vice presidents and other offices. Delegates remain in session as talks focus on higher wage demands. The second item notes a Senate finance committee dispute over ex Representative Bynum Indiana seeking a New York board of appraisers post with Republican alignment cited.
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United Stine Wort
Mitchell
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Miles Daugherty
Shamokin
William PD. van Florne
Pottsville
William Th Raney
Debcarbo
Ind
Cassade
Pine Knott&y
Execcntive
Washington
the Post
Finance Committee
Senate
Oex
Bynum
Indiana
New York Board of Appraisers
State Horticultural Society Reelects Officers in Illinois
The State Horticultural society adjourned in Springfield after re electing officers Henry M Dunlap of Savoy as president and L R Bryant of Princeton as secretary.
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Horticultural Society
Springfeld
State Horticultural Society
Henry M. Dunlap
Savoy
L. R. Bryant
Princeton
Erastus Wiman Settlement Nears Final Accord
New York December 29 creditors of Erastus Wiman near a partial settlement at about 4 1 2 percent. Reported assets total 45 008 dollars with liabilities around 613 000.
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Erastus Winman
New York
Erastus Wiman
Markets Close Mixed on Chicago Board of Trade Grains
Chicago grain and produce list mixed quotes with December Wheat at 6 55 4, May 6 99 4, corn 80 1/2, oats 22 1/2, and pork and lard futures shown with scattered 10.2x to 10.4x prices. Live cattle and hogs firm receipts estimated around 31,000 hogs and 14,000 cattle with varying grade quotations. Produce items include butter at 14 4c and eggs at 17c per dozen with assorted fruit and vegetable prices.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Eseuetives Pbbubes
Texas
Milwaukee
I Survived the Lion Sultan in a Paris Circus Hall
In a London Evening News report, a lion tamer recalls a deadly incident in Asnieres. Sultan the African lion lunged during a performance, tearing the tamer’s head and body before teammates haled the beast with hot irons. The tamer, battered but alive, returned to the audience to bow amid cheers despite torn clothes and blood.
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Asnieres
NealtHy
Sultan
Hon
Lyons
Ile
Manetti
Manettis
London Evening News
Turkish humor shows stubborn wit in Buckley tales
The Turk is thought dull but Buckley, author of Prayers in Three Continents, offers Turkish jokes. A dervish asks a camel why its lip is crooked and the camel quips about its supposed straightness. A man asks to borrow a Turk's donkey. the owner says it is away, yet the donkey brays, prompting the Turk to refuse lending to anyone who trusts a donkey's voice over his own.
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Buckley
Continents
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